Poets ThinkingPoetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. |
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... Despair " ) , and its im- perial origin ( " of the Air ” ) : Heavenly Hurt , it gives us - We can find no scar , But internal difference - Where the Meanings , are - None may teach it - Any - " Tis the Seal Despair - An imperial ...
... despair , Nor blear - eyed wisdom out of midnight oil . The antinomies here are labor versus spontaneous blossoming or voluntary dancing , mortified body versus erotic body , beauty ver- sus the despair it occasions in its frustrated ...
... despair of the beauty - creating poet balked of love , and the mortification of the body by Christian ascetics to share the same stanza with the pe- rennially sexual " blossomer " and the ecstatic dancer . It is probably true to say ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope Thinking | 10 |
Walt Whitman Thinking | 37 |
Copyright | |
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